Week 5: Reading Diary, Extra: Lagoo, the Story-Teller

Lagoo. Source: Form the unit reading

I choose the reading from Unit: American Indian Fairy Tales.






Lagoo was known to be so wise that no one else could compare to him. Lagoo could understand the language of the animals and knew the secrets of the woods. He was also a huge fan to the children. He would make necklaces from shells for little girls. For the boys, he would help them make bows and arrows. He was most famous to the children for the stories he told. Lagoo could also answer all their questions they had asked; who, when why and where.

This was the first story to the unit, it follows with the story of the North wind then continues with clouds and stars. Each story is told my Lagoo the wise one.

I choose this section for more inspiration to my storybook, Cherokee myths. I also enjoy learning about the Indian ways. I liked how the introduction,  Lagoo, the Story-Teller was the introduction for this unit. It gave a good setting to the unit. For my storybook, I am doing something similar. So I found this unit's reading helpful. I think that the more details you give in the introduction the better image it sets in the readers mind.

Indian Fire Photo By; LaughingRaven on Pixabay

I have gathered that it is very popular for Indians to gather around the fireplace to tell stories. In the story Lagoo,  the Story-Teller, winter was the prime time for storytelling. In many creation stories of Native Americans fire was not always on earth or at easy access. Such as the myth of The First Fire, by the Cherokee Indians. Indian are believers that each and everything creature on earth is important and had a job. They also are very close to earth and its element. 

I enjoy reading and learning about Indians and their myths because it is not the cultural norm of today. Today most things evolve around electricity, technology and money. If you read this Indian myth they didn't need any of those things. They lived on the earth and only the earth. They were self-sustaining. I appreciate the way they looked at the world and gave back to it what it gave to them.    I am also a fan of animals and I think it would be interesting to go back in the old times of the Indians when they held very close relationships with animals. There is also another myth on the creation of medicine. This myth is called, Origin Of Disease and Medicine also from the Cherokee. It tells how there was an imbalance with the humans and animals so the animals brought thickness to the humans. The humans had also been kind and loving towards the plants, though. So in return, the plants offered them medicine from their leaves, berried and herbs. Anything the Indians needed they could find naturally on earth. 

Story from: American Indian Fairy Tales unit. Sorce: American Indian Fairy Tales by W.T. Larner, with illustrations by John Rae (1921).